Zohar School of Dance
Zohar Dance Company / Zohar Dance Studio, 4000 Middlefield Road, L4, Palo Alto, CA 94303
About
Zohar School of Dance offers jazz, ballet, modern, contemporary, and musical theatre dance classes, as well as Vinyasa yoga. The program also includes a Summer Dance Intensive, Dance Audition Preparation, a Movement Lab Series, and the Dance Mosaic annual summer dance festival. Zohar School of Dance also offers Juvie Jazz classes in Juvenile Hall.
• Schedule: Class and program options vary, including ongoing dance and yoga classes, intensives, and series-based offerings
Founded by Ehud Krauss in 1979, Zohar has been based in Palo Alto since 1979 and operates as a non-profit organization. The program is directed by Daynee Lai-Krauss and Vivian Sam. Ehud Krauss studied dance with Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Robert Joffrey, Gus Giordano, and Luigi in New York, and performed as a soloist and principal dancer in Europe, Canada, and the United States.
Zohar is dedicated to making dance accessible, inclusive, vibrant, relevant and integral to its community. Zohar Dance Studio is dedicated to inspiring the individual through the study of dance, encouraging artistic development in both the individual and dance community, and providing a professional facility that is inclusive.
Zohar supports the dance community through a performance series that brings together new and established artists in performances held in its space and by providing individuals with a professional facility to create and present performances. The organization offers an Open Program of dance classes for adults and hosts the Dance Mosaic annual summer dance festival that brings multiple dance forms together on a single program. Zohar’s outreach program IndepenDANCE was started for children in East Palo Alto who had no afterschool programs and expanded to multiple elementary, middle, and high schools in East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and San Jose, including the building of dance studios with sprung-wood floors at multiple school sites. Ehud Krauss also worked with serious offenders in Juvenile Hall and taught Juvie Jazz at both Santa Clara County and San Mateo Juvenile Halls, and this work led to the development of a course at Stanford University entitled “Dance in Prisons.”
Last updated June 21, 2026.
• Schedule: Class and program options vary, including ongoing dance and yoga classes, intensives, and series-based offerings
Founded by Ehud Krauss in 1979, Zohar has been based in Palo Alto since 1979 and operates as a non-profit organization. The program is directed by Daynee Lai-Krauss and Vivian Sam. Ehud Krauss studied dance with Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Robert Joffrey, Gus Giordano, and Luigi in New York, and performed as a soloist and principal dancer in Europe, Canada, and the United States.
Zohar is dedicated to making dance accessible, inclusive, vibrant, relevant and integral to its community. Zohar Dance Studio is dedicated to inspiring the individual through the study of dance, encouraging artistic development in both the individual and dance community, and providing a professional facility that is inclusive.
Zohar supports the dance community through a performance series that brings together new and established artists in performances held in its space and by providing individuals with a professional facility to create and present performances. The organization offers an Open Program of dance classes for adults and hosts the Dance Mosaic annual summer dance festival that brings multiple dance forms together on a single program. Zohar’s outreach program IndepenDANCE was started for children in East Palo Alto who had no afterschool programs and expanded to multiple elementary, middle, and high schools in East Palo Alto, Redwood City, and San Jose, including the building of dance studios with sprung-wood floors at multiple school sites. Ehud Krauss also worked with serious offenders in Juvenile Hall and taught Juvie Jazz at both Santa Clara County and San Mateo Juvenile Halls, and this work led to the development of a course at Stanford University entitled “Dance in Prisons.”
Last updated June 21, 2026.
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